Bergen-Belsen was a well known camp in Germany throughout the mid 1940s. It was mainly created to be a detention camp in 1943, but ended up becoming a concentration camp at the start of World War II. During the war they murdered at least 50,000 Jews, not all from gas chambers or finished off by guards. Most were actually killed by exhaustion, starvation, or even diseases. When the British troops went in to rescue the people, they found 60,000 people starving and 10,000 unburied bodies (Syndor). Though this was the only all Jewish camp in Bergen-Belsen, its was the largest in its area (Bergen-Belsen).
At one time the center house, housed 11,000 Jews. In 1946, the British tried to change the camp's name from Bergen-Belsen to Hohne. After the extent of Liberation the survivors of Bergen-Belsen decided to form a camp board and it was the center of all the new family life. They had an average of twenty weddings a day. The "displaced people" or DP started a Elementary school and a High School. At the Elementary school they had 340 pupils to start with. They also created a newspaper called Unzer Shtimme or "Our Voice" translated, it was the main article in the British Zone (Bergen-Belsen). As you can tell this was a difficult war to handle all over the world.
"Soviet POWS assembled at Bergen-Belsen camp"
Work Citied
"Bergen-Belsen." Bergen-Belsen. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d. Web. 05 Sept.2012.
"Soviet POWS assembled at Bergen-Belsen camp" "Holocaust History." Photograph. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d. Web. 05
Sydnor, Charles W. , Jr. "Bergen-Belsen." World Book Student. World Book, 2012. Web. 5 Sept. 2012.
At one time the center house, housed 11,000 Jews. In 1946, the British tried to change the camp's name from Bergen-Belsen to Hohne. After the extent of Liberation the survivors of Bergen-Belsen decided to form a camp board and it was the center of all the new family life. They had an average of twenty weddings a day. The "displaced people" or DP started a Elementary school and a High School. At the Elementary school they had 340 pupils to start with. They also created a newspaper called Unzer Shtimme or "Our Voice" translated, it was the main article in the British Zone (Bergen-Belsen). As you can tell this was a difficult war to handle all over the world.
Work Citied
"Bergen-Belsen." Bergen-Belsen. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d. Web. 05 Sept.2012.
"Soviet POWS assembled at Bergen-Belsen camp" "Holocaust History." Photograph. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d. Web. 05
Sydnor, Charles W. , Jr. "Bergen-Belsen." World Book Student. World Book, 2012. Web. 5 Sept. 2012.